YAKUM, Israel, June 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

Alon Blue Square Israel Ltd. (OTC:BSIRY) (the "Company")announced today that the District Court in Lod, Israel rendered its decision requiring the Company to convene a meeting of the Company's financial creditors comprised of the banks and holders of Series C Debentures (the holders of the Series C Debentures would convene prior such meeting in order to authorize the trustee for the Series C Debentures to vote on their behalf) and a meeting of the Company's shareholders in order to approve the proposed debt arrangement in the Company. The respective meetings are to be held as early as possible, but not prior to the July 12, 2016. The Court stated in its decision that it is aware that there are non-Israeli shareholders (the Court made a typographical error in its decision and wrote "non-Israeli bondholders") that may not be able to participate in the shareholders meeting due to time constraints, however, given the circumstances, it would not be possible to wait until the non-Israeli shareholders could participate.

Additionally, the Court appointed Professor Amir Barnea as an expert to evaluate the Company's valuation prior to the proposed debt arrangement, and irrespective of that, the value of the consideration to be received by the Company's controlling shareholder on account of its Company shares under the proposed debt arrangement. In its decision, the Court noted that a company under the control of Mr. Moti Ben Moshe offered to purchase the shares held by the minority shareholders for a total of NIS 2 million. Each party is entitled to deliver its position to the expert regarding the value of the Company's shares prior to Wednesday, June 29, 2016. The expert is required to issue its opinion within 14 days hereof.

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Alon Blue Square Israel Ltd. (hereinafter: "Alon Blue Square") operates through subsidiaries.Continued operations - its Tel Aviv Stock Exchange ("TASE")listed 53.92% subsidiary,Blue Square Real Estate Ltd., which owns, leases and develops income producing commercial properties and projects. The others activities include the clearance of purchase coupons and operating the logistic center in Beer Tuvia. Companies designated for sale -the 63.13% held subsidiary, Dor Alon Energy in Israel (1988) Ltd, listed on the TASE, is one of the four largest fuel retail companies in Israel based on the number of petrol stations and a leader in the field of convenience stores operating a chain of 211 petrol stations and 218 convenience stores in different formats in Israel, and Na'aman Group (NV) Ltd., a 77.51% subsidiary listed on the TASE, operates specialist outlets in self-operation and franchises and offers a wide range of "Non-Food" in the houseware and textile segment.

Forward-looking statements 

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may include, but are not limited to, plans or projections about our business, our future revenues, expenses and profitability. Forward-looking statements may be, but are not necessarily, identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "may," "anticipates," "estimates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "believes," and words and terms of similar substance. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual events, results, performance, circumstance and achievements to be materially different from any future events, results, performance, circumstance and achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to, the following: failure to reach a settlement with holders of our bank debt and guaranteed bank debt and holders of our Series C Debentures as well as the trustees and creditors of Mega Retail and whether we will continue operations; failure to satisfy all closing conditions for the proposed debt arrangement; acceptance by the court of all or part of the claims made by the trustees of Mega Retail; exposure to third party claims for significant amount of Mega Retail's outstanding debts and liabilities; financial and operational restrictions imposed by the proposed framework for debt repayment with our financial creditors; commitments to issue additional shares which would dilute existing shareholdings and may lower the trading price of our securities; economic conditions in Israel which may affect our financial performance;  dependence of BSRE on Mega Retail as a lessee of its properties; our ability to compete effectively with large fuel companies and our other competitors; enactment of new laws and regulations, including the enactment of recommendations of governmental appointed committees and regulations with respect to the procurement of petroleum products by fuel companies and the price of petroleum products that are subject to regulation; the effect of increases in oil, raw material and product prices in recent years; and other risks, uncertainties and factors disclosed in our filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including, but not limited to, risks, uncertainties and factors identified under the heading "Risk Factors" in our annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2015. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. Except for our ongoing obligations to disclose material information under the applicable securities laws, we undertake no obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.  


        
         
        Contact: 
        Alon Blue Square Israel Ltd. 
        ZehavitShahaf, Adv., 
        General Counsel and Corporate Secretary 
        Telephone: +972-9-9618504 
        Fax: +972-9-9618636 
        Email: zehavits@bsi.co.il 

 

SOURCE Alon Blue Square Israel Ltd.